The Hardest Subject

“How many times should we brush our teeth?” a mother would often ask her son in the morning to make sure that he does his three times a day brushing. “What time will you be home?” a gleaming kid would sweetly ask his father. “If you take my three grapes, I will only have two grapes,” a sad sibling would tell his younger brother. At the start of our day, we would be faced with questions that require simple solving and a basic thought process. A day will never go by without facing a problem on “How much is left? or “How many do I have?”. Mathematics is a fundamental aspect of our daily interaction. Surprisingly, an important subject will also be seen

It did not help that academic instruction is mostly in blended modular. In 2019, a PISA survey showed that we ranked 79 out of 80 countries. SWS survey showed that 89% of the families see blended learning modular harder than face-toface. His would mean that the then hard subject would only get harder for students. Studies have been conducted to ask for the reason why Math is a hard subject. It showed that students would see math as an abstract subject and would get more challenging as the increase in level happens. This increase in difficulty makes it longer to understand and students struggle to master the subject more.

No blueprint solution would serve as a cookie-cutter guide for students. Every situation and every student requires a unique strategy to see mathematics from a lighter perspective. It might be a surprising phenomenon for a student to favor math over other subjects but it is not impossible. Indeed, there might be a cookie-cutter to like math and it is the hardest subject by opinion but the fact remains that it is a fundamental subject. It might be hard but the benefit is greater than we can imagine. (Paid article)